Over the past five years, Restore Fairness has built an incredible resource of award winning immigration videos, blog posts and take actions to restore fair immigration and racial justice. The campaign began as the aftermath of 9-11 set in with a steady decline in the human rights of all immigrants to the United States. Cruel anti-immigrant laws were denying basic due process to thousands of people, with particular impact on immigrant women and their families. Many policies also discriminated against people on the basis of national origin, race, religion, or citizenship. Immigrants bore the brunt of these with the U.S. government allowing sweeping enforcement practices, holding thousands in inhumane detention conditions, and deporting people without a fair trial, while people of color faced racial profiling and violations as suspects, defendants, and prisoners. Many families were separated from their children by indefinite or deportation, and others – especially in states such as Arizona and Alabama, where police checked the immigration status of anyone inviting “reasonable suspicion” of being undocumented — lived in fear of these threats, devastating their lives and communities.

Today, both President Obama and Congress have shown signs to pursue immigration reform. This a clear opportunity to turn the tide, stopping the harsh enforcement that has led to the highest levels of detention and deportation in years, with particular impact on immigrant women.